(K Pearson 1950 We were weighing & measuring at the tunnel mouth, turning the babies loose on the wall as we finished. The babies were somewhat scattered over the wall - some small groups, some singly. An occasional adult would flutter in and out again at the entrance, making short rapid squeaks as she flew. One mother who either had flown past us into the tunnel or was one of the 5 adults who had become separated from her baby made repeated visits to the wall in front of us. Many of the baby bats were squeaking, and she seemed to have difficulty finding her own. She would first alight near one group and then near another, then a third time she landed on a single baby. Each time she stayed on the wall quite briefly after searching in the particular group at hand. I had the impression that she wouldn't find her baby in those groups, although she never seemed interested in the several groups of liches to one side of the area where she kept landing. There was one baby squeaking about 1'2' up from the floor but fairly near (about 1'2' down) from the groups she was working over. I moved him up to the other groups, and the next time she lit she caught him and promptly flew off with him. The pattern on the wall was roughly: